Yes. Blaming the expats has overlooked the fact that it is the universities here -- and anywhere -- that are promoting socialism and all those stupid ideas. The age of the vote demographic probably matters more.

umm... that poll isn't very useful... someone who moved to Texas 30 or 40 years ago is a whole lot different than someone who moved to Texas last year. The poll doesn't show the break-out that matters.

Yes. Blaming the expats has overlooked the fact that it is the universities here -- and anywhere -- that are promoting socialism and all those stupid ideas. The age of the vote demographic probably matters more.

The education numbers are not as skewed as you might guess. Beto won college grads overall, but only by 51-48. But Cruz won the respondents with a bachelors degree or less, while losing those with advanced degrees by 59-40.

It would be interesting to see what the breakdown is for the advanced degrees. I suspect O'Rourke won PhDs by even more, but those are swamped by MDs and lawyers and others.

As these millennials age some of them will turn more conservative/moderate. It always happens. This good economy will create more conservatism.

Another reason to raise the voting age. You should be out in the economy before voting. College is a bubble with unreal economics. As usual, military excepted - -because they are out of the bubble the moment enlist.

The interesting breakdown to me would be to see the white, non-Hispanic breakdown for these categories.

The black population of the state was likely born in the state and the voting eligible Hispanic population is probably more likely born in the state as well (statistically whites much more likely to move as a result of work). These two born in Texas groups went heavily for Beto.

Yes. Blaming the expats has overlooked the fact that it is the universities here -- and anywhere -- that are promoting socialism and all those stupid ideas. The age of the vote demographic probably matters more.

I didn't have to take too many stats classes, but making an inference with no data leads to all kinds of problems. I'm 30, my wife is black/Hispanic, and we both voted straight ticket R this time around.

I'm in my 50s...born and raised in Texas. I'm still friends with most of the guys I grew up with. They are all college educated and successful. The vast majority are pretty hard core lefties. Great guys. We don't talk politics much anymore because we are polar opposites. So we stick to football, families and jokes....

That is very unexpected. Interesting. I'm not sure what to make of that.

It's not that unexpected to me.

I'm a transplant. Was born and raised on the west coast by Texan parents. Came to Texas to attend A&M. Flirted with the idea of going back west after graduation, glad I didn't.

Lots of us came to Texas for higher education and stayed, or for better jobs/economic opportunity. We wanted to be Texans, not change Texas.

Next, Hispanics overwhelmingly vote liberal.

Finally, over the last 25 years I have been here I was watched the large metro areas morph in to LA, Chicago, Atlanta, etc. Our big cities really aren't any different than any other big city in America now.

What about people that were both born in Texas and moved to Texas? Say someone was born here, moved away when they were 20, then moved back to Texas when they were 45. Does this person get counted twice?

This is why I don't generally fear the Texas migration as others do. In fact, I see it as a way to mitigate the demographic changes. When you look at what goes into the decision to move it there's a lot involved. You're uprooting your family, leaving better weather, different culture, etc for work or better financial sense and housing costs. Those types of decisions are typically made by people who are conservative.

Yes. Blaming the expats has overlooked the fact that it is the universities here -- and anywhere -- that are promoting socialism and all those stupid ideas. The age of the vote demographic probably matters more.

Blaming the local universities is probably taking it a step too far. I wonder if they have polling on how university educated people of different ages voted based on what schools they attended.

Yes. Blaming the expats has overlooked the fact that it is the universities here -- and anywhere -- that are promoting socialism and all those stupid ideas. The age of the vote demographic probably matters more.

Exactly right. Academia is the single greatest threat to our republic.